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Carroll’s pyramid of responsibility

"A responsible club" usually means one charity drive a year. There are actually four levels, and the bottom three decide more than the top one.

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Archie B. Carroll · 1991
How it works

A club that cannot pay for the room will keep none of its promises — which is why economic responsibility sits at Carroll's foundation rather than off to one side.

  1. EconomicMoney for the room, the coffee and next year.
  2. LegalThe sponsor contract, sign-up data, music rights, the university's rules.
  3. EthicalThe reference you promised and nobody wrote. The law is silent; you are not.
  4. PhilanthropicVoluntary: an event open to the city, giving to others.
the base holds the rest
Four check questions in place of a score: 'we are at level three' is a meaningless sentence, and Carroll himself pointed out in 2016 that ethics permeates every level.
What you do first

At a board meeting walk the four levels out loud, two minutes each: will the money last to the end of term and from where; is there a written agreement with the sponsor and where are the sign-up records; is there a promise to someone you have not kept; what the club did for anyone outside itself. Write one action against every vague answer.

Who thought of it
AC1991
Archie B. Carroll
1991

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